Recommender System

What makes a place or a location interesting for you? Well, your favorite bars, clubs or public places may cross your mind right now and you’ll think further to unique spots or sights in your local area or popular places… Continue Reading →

Michael Küchler just finished his master’s thesis. The goal of his master’s thesis was to investigate the benefit of following other people’s recommendations with similar or partially similar restaurant preferences. More specifically, do people follow the recommendations of other people who… Continue Reading →

Reto Zenger just finished his master’s thesis. The goal of his master’s thesis was to investigate if the concept of collaborative filtering can be applied to cross-project defect prediction. But first, you’ll need a little background. One research field in… Continue Reading →

Thomas Kaul just finished his bachelor’s thesis. The vision for his bachelor’s thesis was to create a computer program or rather an agent that plays Texas Hold’em to beat a specific human player in 1 vs 1. For instance, the… Continue Reading →

Thomas Maurer just finished his master’s thesis. The goal of his master’s thesis was to use the location information about people with similar preferences rather than structured information about places to identify interesting locations. The underlying assumption is that locations… Continue Reading →

The Swiss banc UBS, one of the leading players in the global financial market, announced a contest on how Web 2.0 may help the UBS. In particular UBS was looking for Web 2.0 concepts between 5 and 10 pages focusing… Continue Reading →

Some research has already been done investigating Web-based social networks and its applicability for different tasks such as trust inferrencing with trust networks or collaborative filtering respectively recommender systems. My master student Reto Hodel applied social network analysis to a… Continue Reading →

Everybody is excited about Google Wave and curious about what new forms of interactions with other people become possible. One special thing about Google Wave are the Wavelets. Wavelets are a form of collaboration workspace where people chat and share… Continue Reading →

I advised together with Gerald Reif the master thesis of Tobias Bannwart about a personal cross-site movie recommender system that is implemented as Firefox add-on. The add-on is known as OMORE and can be downloaded. We decided to bring OMORE… Continue Reading →

Online stores or Web page bring information about a myriad of items such as books, CDs, restaurants or movies at the user’s fingertips. Although, the Web reduces the barrier to the information, the user is overwhelmed by the number of… Continue Reading →